Martín Vilardell, Anna (Date of defense: 2017-01-25)
The Cold Spray (CS) is a novelty technique for the production of coatings within the field of Thermal Spray. The use of low work temperatures (under the melting point of the material) is what makes it ...
Svobodova, Adela (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
For the development of more compact and efficient thermal systems, nanofluids are presented as a promising option to replace conventional heat transfer fluids. Nanofluids are a suspension of low ...
Alcón Rovira, Isaac (Date of defense: 2018-03-14)
In this PhD thesis I have studied through state-of-the-art quantum simulations (mainly within the density functional theory approach, DFT) triarylmethyl (TAM) based systems with potential for future ...
Posada Pérez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-03-12)
Our society has a problem with the use of fossil fuels, due to the vast and exceeding emissions derived from human activities. Two ways could be consider to mitigate these harmful effects. On the one ...
Macià Escatllar, Antoni (Date of defense: 2020-09-04)
The research presented in this thesis contributes to the understanding of both titania and silicate nanosystems by providing new information on energetic stability and properties of nanometer sized ...
Cortijos i Aragonès, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-05-22)
Inspired by the proposal that single molecules will be functional elements of future nanoelectronic and Spintronics devices, there exists considerable interest in understanding charge transport in ...
Mondelo-Martell, Manel (Date of defense: 2018-06-18)
Quantum confinement effects, understood as the changes on the structure and dynamics of a molecule when it goes from a free environment to a cavity with some characteristic length of the order of the ...
Tahghighi, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2022-01-13)
Nanoparticle self-assembly is a versatile and coherent strategy for the development of functional nanostructured materials, offering low-cost and scalable methods that can be fine-tuned for many different ...
Alonso Benito, Gerard (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Two main topics are treated in this doctoral thesis from a theoretical and computational point of view: the gas capture and separation from post-combustion flue gases, and the enhanced oil recovery from ...
Prats Garcia, Hèctor (Date of defense: 2019-03-25)
The research work presented in this thesis is divided in two main topics: gas separation and heterogeneous catalysis. Although the systems studied in one part and another are quite different, they share ...